List of books by G. K. Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....
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1900-1909
- Greybeards at Play (1900) poetry
- The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900) poetry
- The Defendant (1901)
- Thomas Carlyle (1902) with J. E. H. Williams
- Twelve Types (1902)
- Robert Browning (1903)
- Charles Dickens: with Numerous Illustrations (1903) with F.G. Kitton
- Tennyson (1903) with R. Garnett
- Thackeray (1903) with L. Melville
- Leo Tolstoy (1903) with G. H. Perris and Edward Garnett
- Varied Types (1903)
- The Napoleon of Notting HillThe Napoleon of Notting HillThe Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an 'alternate reality' of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or...
(1904) novel - G.F. Watts (1904)
- The Club of Queer TradesThe Club of Queer TradesThe Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905.Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means...
(1905) stories - Heretics (1905)
- Charles Dickens (1906)
- The Man Who Was ThursdayThe Man Who Was ThursdayThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller.-Plot summary:...
(1908) novel - OrthodoxyOrthodoxy (book)Orthodoxy is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics...
(1908) - All Things Considered (1908)
- George Bernard Shaw (1909)
- Tremendous Trifles (1909)
- The Ball and the Cross (1909) novel
1910-1919
- Five Types (1910) essays, selected from Twelve Types
- William Blake (1910)
- Alarms and Discursions (1910)
- What's Wrong With the World (1910)
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911)
- The Ballad Of The White Horse (1911) poetry
- The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (1911)
- The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911) stories
- ManaliveManaliveManalive is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote.-Plot summary:...
(1912) novel - A Miscellany Of Men (1912)
- Simplicity and Tolstoy (1912)
- Magic (1913) play
- The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
- The Flying InnThe Flying InnThe Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G. K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales are effectively prohibited...
(1914) novel - The Wisdom Of Father Brown (1914) stories
- Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood (1914)
- London (1914)
- The Barbarism of Berlin (1914)
- Poems (1915)
- Wine, Water And Song (1915) poetry
- The Appetite of Tyranny (1915)
- The Crimes of England (1915)
- Divorce vs. Democracy (1916)
- The Book of Job (1916)
- A Shilling for My Thoughts (1916)
- Temperance and The Great Alliance (1916) pamphlet
- Utopia Of Usurers (1917)
- Lord Kitchener (1917)
- A Short History of England (1917)
- How to Help Annexation (1918)
- Irish Impressions (1919)
1920-1929
- The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
- The Uses of Diversity (1920)
- The New Jerusalem (1920)
- The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems (1922) poetry
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) stories
- Eugenics and other Evils (1922)
- What I Saw in America (1922)
- St. Francis of Assisi (1923)
- Poems (1923)
- Fancies Versus Fads (1923) essays
- The End of the Roman Road (1924)
- Tales Of The Long Bow (1925) stories
- The Superstitions of the Sceptic (1925)
- The Everlasting ManThe Everlasting ManThe Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. Published in 1925, it is to some extent a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells’ Outline of History, which embraced the evolutionary origins of humanity and denied the divinity of Jesus...
(1925) - William Cobbett (1925)
- The Queen of Seven Swords (1926) poetry
- The Outline of Sanity (1926)
- The Incredulity Of Father Brown (1926) stories
- The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926)
- Collected Works (1926) nine volumes
- Collected Poems (1926)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1927)
- The Secret Of Father Brown (1927) stories
- The Return of Don Quixote (1927) novel
- The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (1927) play
- The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton (1927)
- Gloria in Profundis (1927) poetry
- Culture and the Coming Peril (1927)
- Social Reform vs. Birth Control (1927)
- Generally Speaking (1928)
- Do We Agree? (1928) debate with George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
- The Sword of Wood (1928) stories
- The Thing: Why I am a Catholic (1929)
- G.K.C. as M.C (1929) collected introductions, edited by J. P. de Fonseka.
- Father Brown Omnibus (1929) collected stories
- The Poet and the Lunatics (1929) stories
- Ubi Ecclesia (1929) poetry
- Christmas Poems (1929)
- New and Collected Poems (1929)
1930-1936
- Four Faultless Felons (1930) stories, separately in US as The Ecstatic Thief; The Honest Quack; The Loyal Traitor; The Moderate Murderer
- The Turkey and the Turk (1930) play for mummers
- The Grave of Arthur (1930)
- Come to Think of It (1930)
- The Resurrection of Rome (1930)
- All is Grist (1931)
- The Floating Admiral (1931) collaborative detective story
- Chaucer (1932)
- New Poems (1932)
- Christendom in Dublin (1932)
- Sidelights of New London and Newer York (1932)
- All I Survey (1933)
- St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)
- Avowals and Denials (1934)
- GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues OF G.K.'S Weekly (1934)
- The Well and the Shallows (1935)
- The Way of the Cross (1935)
- The Scandal Of Father Brown (1935) stories
- Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)
- Autobiography (1936)
- As I Was Saying (1936)
Posthumous
- The Paradoxes of Mr. PondThe Paradoxes of Mr. PondThe Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936. Of the eight mysteries, seven were first printed in the Storyteller magazine. The Unmentionable Man was unique to the book....
(1937) - The Man Who Was Chesterton (1937) anthology
- The Coloured Lands (1938)
- The End of the Armistice (1940) edited by Frank SheedFrank SheedFrank Sheed, in full, Francis Joseph Sheed, , an Australian-born lawyer, was, like his wife Maisie Ward, a writer, publisher, and speaker. Famous in their day as the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as forceful public lecturers in the Catholic Evidence Guild, their reputations have dimmed...
- The Pocket Book of Father Brown (1943) and many other reprint collections, including The Second Father Brown (1959), Ten Adventures of Father Brown (1961), The Penguin Complete Father Brown (1981), The Father Brown Omnibus (1983), The Best of Father Brown (1987), The Annotated Innocence Of Father Brown (1989), Father Brown Crime Stories(1990), Father Brown of the Church of Rome (1996)
- The Common Man (1950)
- The Surprise (1952) play
- A Handful of Authors (1953)
- Collected Poems (1954)
- The Glass Walking-Stick (1955) edited by Dorothy Collins
- Lunacy and Letters (1958) edited by Dorothy Collins
- Where All Roads Lead (1961)
- The Spice of Life (1965) edited by Dorothy Collins
- G. K. Chesterton. A selection from his non-fictional prose (Faber & Faber 1970) edited by W. H. AudenW. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
- Chesterton on Shakespeare (1972) edited by Dorothy Collins
- The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (1975) edited by Dorothy Collins
- The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems (1978)
- The Spirit of Christmas (1984) edited by Marie Smith
- Basic Chesterton (1984)
- The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (1985) edited by P.J. Kavanagh
- Daylight and Nightmare (1986) uncollected short fiction, edited by Marie Smith
- GK's Weekly: A Sampler (1986)
- The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton (1986) begun by Ignatius PressIgnatius PressIgnatius Press, named for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order, is a Catholic publishing house based in San Francisco, California, USA. It was founded in 1978 by Father Joseph Fessio SJ, a Jesuit priest and former pupil of Pope Benedict XVI...
- Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986)
- Illustrated London News, 1908-1910 (1987)
- Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (1988)
- Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 (1988)
- Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 (1989)
- Illustrated London News, 1920-1922 (1989)
- Thirteen Detectives (1989) edited Marie Smith
- Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Plays (1989)
- Seven Suspects (1990) edited by Marie Smith
- Brave New Family (1990) edited by Alvaro de Silva
- Illustrated London News, 1923-1925 (1990)
- Illustrated London News, 1926-1928 (1991)
- Illustrated London News, 1929-1931 (1991)
- Illustrated London News, 1932-1934 (2011)
- The Mask of Midas (1991)
- Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Collected Poetry: Part 1 (1994)
- Platitudes Undone (1997) annotations to a book by Holbrook JacksonHolbrook JacksonGeorge Holbrook Jackson was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.-Biography:...
- Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (1997) edited by Russel Sparkes
- Eugenics and Other Evils (2000)
- On Lying in Bed and Other Essays (2000)
- Criticisms and Appreciations of the works of Charles Dickens (2001)
- The G.K. Chesterton Papers: Additional Manuscripts (2001)
- Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton (2002)
- Essential Writings (2003)
- G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards at Play, The White Knight and Other Poems, The Ballad of the White Horse (2004)